Gregor Schlierenzauer

Gregor Schlierenzauer (born 7 January 1990 in Fulpmes, Tyrol) is an Austrian ski jumper.

Was an early age, Schlierenzauer as an outstanding talent and is now one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time.

Career

Gregor Schlierenzauer was junior world champion on the normal hill in Kranj in February 2006. Already at the Summer Grand Prix Ski Jumping 2006, he announced his break with a win, two second and a third place and a victory in the team competition at.

He made his debut in March 2006 at the World Cup from Oslo, where he jumped right off the bat as 24th in the points. Since the second competition of the season 2006/ 07 he belongs to the tribe of Austria squad for the World Cup. In his first season he jumped to fourth place. The second competition on the large hill, he won ahead of Norway's Anders Jacobsen and thus became the sixth- youngest ski jumping champion at that time. In the Four Hills Tournament 2006/ 07 he made two days wins and second place in the overall standings. In the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo 2007, he won the team gold medal in jumping on the large hill. The overall victory in his first full World Cup season missed Schlierenzauer mainly due boisterous ski flying competitions, for which he did not believe to be ready. The 2007/08 season also was very successful; he became ski flying world champion. The day after, he was with Martin Koch, Thomas Morgenstern and Andreas Kofler team ski flying world champion. End of the season he still won the Nordic Tournament in 2008 and introduced on 14 March 2008 when he won the ski flying in Planica with 232,5 m a new Austrian wide record. This record he surpassed on 15 March 2008 again with 233.5 m.

As part of the FIS Grand Prix Schlierenzauer won in August 2008, jumping in Pragelato and thus won overall in the 4-Nations -Grand- Prix. The following two Grand Prix competitions in Zakopane he could also decide for themselves. With further victories in Klingenthal Liberec and he also won the overall ranking of the FIS Grand Prix 2008. As a member of the ski flying team, he was in October 2008 in the category " Teams " awarded as Sportsman of the Year.

On 10 January 2009 he improved the previous hill record of Sven Hanna forest at Kulm by 1.5 m to 215.5 m. On January 25, 2009 he won as the day before jumping on the Olympic hill of 2010, and stood in strong updraft the record distance of 149 m. In the 2008 / 09 season, Schlierenzauer won six World Cup competitions in a row and placed so that the record of Janne Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki and Thomas Morgenstern. He holds the record of thirteen won World Cup competitions in a season. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009, he won behind his teammate Wolfgang Loitzl the silver medal on the normal hill, with the team he won a week later the world title on the large hill.

Overall World Cup 2008/ 09 he secured with 2,083 points from 27 Jumping, which is points record in the World Cup ski jumping. He also won the ski flying World Cup in the same season. A few days after the season he rushed for material tests in Ramsau. In the fall, he retired to a tear of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee.

With his victory in Engelberg on December 19, 2009 Schlierenzauer won his 26th World Cup competitions. So he passed on the number of wins Andreas fields and presented in this category with only 19 years of a new Austrian record. With his victory at Kulm on 10 January 2010, the seventh victory in a ski flying competition, he secured this season besides the record as the most successful ski jumpers of all time.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, he won both the normal and on the large hill the bronze medal. He also won the Austrian team the gold medal in the team competition.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season he was injured during training on his left knee. Through the regeneration phase, a struggle for winning the overall World Cup was not possible, but Schlierenzauer was already the beginning of January in Harrachov (Czech Republic, ski jump facility Čerťák ) place back in the top ten. He continuously improved its performance and finally reached three more wins and ninth place in the overall World Cup. On February 12, 2011 in ski flying in Vikersund Schlierenzauer flew 243.5 m and thus to new Austrian national record.

On 3 March 2011 Schlierenzauer won the competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo at the Holmenkollen ski jump his first individual gold medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships. Until then, the last Austrian world champion was on the large hill Andreas fields, which this was 24 years previously succeeded in the Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 in Oberstdorf. In addition, Schlierenzauer won at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in team competition on both the normal hill and the large hill each a gold medal. This Schlierenzauer won 3 gold medals alone at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo.

2011/12 Schlierenzauer won the Four Hills Tournament for the first time. He won the first two competitions in Oberstdorf and Garmisch- Partenkirchen and finished at the competitions in Austria a second (Innsbruck ) and third place ( Bischofshofen ). On 4 February 2012 at Val di Fiemme, he won his 40th World Cup competition already at the age of 22 years. He overtook in the time list after World Cup victories Adam Malysz.

Before the start to the 2012/13 World Cup season Gregor Schlierenzauer made with considerable criticism of the new suit rules of the International Ski Federation FIS headlines. The plan is that the suits must fit skin tight from next season and between the body and the skin no more tolerance is allowed was. Only after the criticism of Schlierenzauer has decided to reintroduce an inch tolerance. The rule change in pull-in range is one of the weitrechendsten interventions in the flight system for many years.

In the 2012/13 season, Schlierenzauer decided for the second time the Four Hills Tournament for themselves. He is the first athlete since Janne Ahonen, who succeeded in defending their title in this competition. When ski flying competition on February 3, 2013, Harrachov he could beat the previous record Matti Nykänens of 46 World Cup victories. He also won the second competition on that day. He is the first ski flying athlete who won two contests in one day. In Kuopio, Finland Schlierenzauer took fifth place and the preliminary win the overall World Cup in the four remaining individual competition. On March 17, 2013 he won at the traditional Holmenkollen points with Poland Piotr Żyła for the 49th time. With his 50th overall victory in the ski flying in Planica, he secured about a week later for the third time the small crystal in the ski flying World Cup. After the season Gregor Schlierenzauer was elected Tyrolean athletes of the year.

Private

Gregor Schlierenzauer lives in Fulpmes and starts for the SV Innsbruck- Bergisel. His manager is his uncle, the multiple world champion Rodel and triple medalist at the Winter Olympics Markus Prock. Schlierenzauer is deaf from birth on the left ear. In 2007 he was awarded the Golden Badge of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

Bronze medal in the individual jumping ( normal hill )
Bronze medal in the individual competition ( large hill )
Gold in the team competition ( large hill )

Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi

Silver in the team competition ( large hill )

Four Hills Tournament

World Cup wins

World Cup victories with the team

Hill records

World Cup rankings

Grand Prix victories

Grand Prix victories with the team

Grand Prix rankings

Other successes

8- times Austrian Champion ( 2006/2008/2009 wholesale and normal hill, large hill in 2007, 2010 normal hill )
2 times junior world champion on the normal hill 2006 ( and team )
13 World Cup wins in a season ( record, season 2008/ 09)
6 World Cup victories in a row ( record, season 2008/ 09)
2,083 points in one World Cup season ( record, season 2008/ 09)
20 podiums in a season ( record, season 2008/ 09)
14 World Cup wins in ski flying competitions (a record )
2 World Cup victories in one day (3 February 2013 record )
Austrian ski flying distance record in ( 243.5 m)

Awards

2007: Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
2007: Austria's sporting Newcomer of the Year
2008: part of the Austrian team of the year ( national ski jumping )
2009: part of the Austrian team of the year ( national ski jumping )
2011: part of the Austrian team of the year ( national ski jumping )
2012: part of the Austrian team of the year ( national ski jumping )
2013: Holmenkollen medal

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